Interactive TV Standards: A Guide to Mhp, Ocap, and Javatv

by Anthony Smith-Chaigneau and Steven Morris

Book Overview

For any digital TV developer or manager, the maze of standards and specifications related to MHP and OCAP is daunting-you have to patch together pieces from several standards to gather all the necessary knowledge you need to compete worldwide. The standards themselves can be confusing, and contain many inconsistencies and missing pieces. Interactive TV Standards provides a guide for actually deploying these technologies for a broadcaster or product...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0240806662
• ISBN13: 9780240806662
• Release Date: April 2005
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 612 Pages
• Weight: 3.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.6" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Very good book

A book gives good summary of the interactive middleware in the TV industry, with lots of API samples. I will recommend it to anyone investigating the ITV middleware.

Good guide for MHP and OCAP basics

Good guide for MHP and OCAP standards. It helps understand basic things of these standards

This is THE book to get started in OCAP

We started our OCAP project prior to the arrival of this book and had to rely on digging through all of the different, confusingly referenced, standards. Every chapter of this book caused a light bulb to click on with a big "ah ha!" Don't get started without reading a copy of this book. It's a 10 to 1 reduction in pain.

insightful, and well-written

The authors give a well-written introduction as well as many insights into the design of interactive tv systems. This is a must-have for anyone new in this field. The book presents much more information than those on the interactive-mhp.org website.

The book you need if you are serious about IDTV

This an excellent book! A must have! I strongly recommend it to anyone willing to have a broad and at the same time in-depth view into the numerous concepts and APIs necessary for designing IDTV applications. Several code snippets are provided to illustrate how each API can be used: this can help save a lot of time as the DVB MHP and OCAP specs are a little bit large.